Word: strikingly
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...specific actions Clinton selected required more subtle calibration. He rejected more robust but riskier attacks on Baghdad installations or the invading Iraqi forces. The U.S. would strike, as Perry explained, on ground of its own choosing in the south. Washington would be able to expand its longer-term strategic advantage by taking control of a larger share of Iraq's airspace, a move that would also humiliate Saddam in front of his own military. Thus, the decisions to fire two volleys of high-tech, low-casualty cruise missiles against 15 air-defense sites south of Baghdad...
Logic says Saddam will strike out again and again, requiring further and further retaliation from the U.S. "We know he's going to knock on that door from time to time to see if there's anybody out there who still cares," says a senior White House official. "He's got to recognize that we're still here and we ain't going away." For the moment, the U.S. still holds the balance of power in the Gulf and has proved it will use that power alone if necessary. That is making a virtue of necessity; anything closer to stability...
...these stops are accessible by Metro for the cost of a pack of chewing gum. There are of course diversions closer to home. And you're undoubtedly being inundated with information about how to spend your free time (did I mention The Crimson's open house?). But be brave; strike out on your own. Some Saturday afternoon when you're tired of Ultimate Frisbee, think about exploring the city you'll spend the next four years pretending you live in. If nothing else, it'll make it easier to fake it. And you, yes you a Harvard student, might even...
What with the spread of the World Wide Web and the increasingly cluttered electronic sight-and soundscape, the act of reading and turning wood-pulp pages may strike some as hopelessly passe, the informational equivalent of the fondue party. Two of the fall's more interesting books argue, perhaps unsurprisingly but also quite persuasively, against this view; they are about books and the wealth of contemplative pleasures they afford...
...hours after the first cruise missile attack on Iraqi air defense installations, another flight of missiles was launched to finish the job. At 8pm EDT Tuesday, three U.S. Navy ships and an attack submarine launched 17 cruise missiles at four sites the first attack failed to destroy. The second strike, said White House spokesman Mike McCurry was "necessary to ensure the safety of aircraft and crews operating in the expanded no-fly zone." U.S, British and French air forces began patrolling the expanded zone midday Wednesday Iraqi time, unfazed by Saddam Hussein's clearly stated intention to shoot them down...